A better installation guide for Debian Linux?
lazarus / 1-Linux

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WILL · 2004-11-05 02:05

It is seriously CONFUSING how the installation for Lazarus is to be
done for those in Debian Linux. I mean, just installing for Linux was
bad enough, but then that tiny undescriptive section for Debian just
threw me for a loop(and infanite loop to be exact).

Can anyone please provide a better set of instructions for installing
Lazarus on Debian? Or maybe can someone rewrite the Linus Installation
guide so that the Debian segments are more detailed and a bit easier
to follow what is for Debian and what is for the others?

I would truely appreciate this, thanks in advance!

Hopefully I can be using Free Pascal under Debian this coming Jan.

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eric · 2004-11-05 08:17

Here's how I did it, and it's really quite easy:

1. Download the RPMs for fpc-1.9.5 and fpcsrc-1.9.5. Use Alien to
convert these to DEBs, then install them in the usual Debian way. You
may find that this fails to create /etc/fpc.cfg, in which case you
have to get a copy of the template for this file and hand modify it to
suit your system. You will certainly need to add the path to the Gnome
libraries in the 'library' section - e.g. -Fl/usr/lib
2. Download the latest Lazarus daily snapshot source and unpack it to
an appropriate directory, or (better) get it via CVS. I have it in my
home directory, as this eliminates problems of access permissions.
3. Make sure that you have the necessary development packages
installed on your system. gtk-dev and gdk-pixbuf-dev are probably not
installed by default (I'm not sure offhand if these are exactly the
right names).
4. CD into your lazarus directory and type 'make' without the quotes.
If this fails with a linking error, then you probably need to install
some more development package(s).

If the build succeeds, then you can type ./lazarus to run Lazarus. If
it fails and you can't resolve it, come back and ask.

Eric

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Vincent Snijders · 2004-11-05 12:52

Both of you, (actually anybody) are wellcome to enhence the
installation documentation on http://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net.

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Anonymous · 2004-11-30 11:54

Hi! o/
I experienced an error after installing lazarus under knoppix debian
(kurumin) via apt-get (a great resource I have to say) and what I got
was an error that blocks any compilation, even the form editing
crashes!! O_O
I've installed the FPC, 1.9.4 I guess, and lazarus does not recognize
as /usr/lib/fpc/1.9.4/units/lix as the fpc's directory ;_;
Please I need a help cause just this error causes the delaying of
totally migrating my entire job (and more than 30 computers) to linux
o/
TKS and best regards

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Anonymous · 2005-01-21 16:06

I installed Lazarus 0.9.4.1 on XP and PCLinuxOS (Mandrake) with zero
problems.
For Ubuntu (Debian) I solved my problems doing alien -c to preserve
scripts - this way fpc.cfg is created and following the instructions
on
http://www.freepascal.org/packages/gtk/tutorial/pgtk2.html

I've been following lazarus for a long time and I feel that the time
is coming... now we need components. Lots of...

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Lightning · 2005-01-23 17:03

You could also try the new installer for Linux, see the news.